ATA's 2026 Driver Compensation Survey

Introduction

Thank you for participating in ATA's 2026 Driver Compensation Survey!
Rest assured that your data and participation will be held in strict confidence, only aggregate data will be reported.
Non-disclosure agreements are available upon request.

INSTRUCTIONS

We are happy to share a new and improved survey with motor carriers. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability, reporting an average or making a best guess where appropriate. If you have any questions, please contact Lindsay Bur at drivercompsurvey@trucking.org. Please feel free to work on it in sections, making sure to save your progress as you go. If you need the survey to be split up so that different company employees can fill out different sections, please email drivercompsurvey@trucking.org and we will make accomodations.

PLEASE NOTE: Additional punctuation will not be accepted for numerical fields, please do not include commas
Correct Style: 5000
Incorrect Style: 5,000, 5K, 5 thousand, $5000, etc
For cents values, please use decimal:
Correct Style: 0.45
Incorrect Style: 45, 45 cents

Survey Format Preview:
1. Introduction
2. General Information
3. Employee Driver Profile
4. Employee Driver Benefits
5. Employee Driver Bonuses
6. Employee Driver Pay Rates & Average Annual Compensation
7. Independent Contractors

Question Title

* 1. Contact Information

Company Name:

Respondent Name:

Respondent Position (ie. Compensation Manager):

Respondent Email:

Question Title

* 2. What best describes your company?

For-Hire Truckload Carrier

For-Hire Less-Than-Truckload Carrier

Private Carrier

Please choose the most applicable. Private carriers are companies whose primary business purpose is not freight transportation. If your company is a motor carrier that engages in both private and for-hire operations, please select the option that applies to the majority of your operations.